Fabian Braennstroem wrote: > Hi, > > I am pretty new to python and will use it mainly in > combination with scientific packages. I am running ubuntu > breezy right now and see that some packages are out of date. > Do you have any suggestion, how I can get/keep the latest > python modules (e.g. scipy, numpy,...) on my ubuntu system? > I.e. does there exist any script/program, which downloads > and installs automatically the latest stable releases of selected > modules? It would be nice, if the program can remove the > installed modules, too!?
You will probably want to look at easy_install. http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall With easy_install, you could do something like the following: $ easy_install TurboGears and get the TurboGears package and all of its dependencies built and installed as eggs (the packaging format that easy_install uses; read the page I gave above). The packages are installed as self-contained bundles, so you can delete them easily using rm. There are plenty of opportunities for the community (i.e., you and I :-)) to contribute utility scripts that make such things easier. Unfortunately, neither numpy nor scipy will automatically work with the easy_install script at the moment. However, you can download the source and build eggs manually once you have the setuptools package installed (setuptools is the package that provides easy_install). You can then install the built eggs using easy_install. > Or would it be easier to stick to apt/deb and create own > packages ... Ubuntu is pretty good with keeping up-to-date Python packages, scipy being a notable exception in your case and mine. I would recommend using the Ubuntu packages for packages that are relatively less important to you and using easy_install for the packages for which you need the absolute latest version. -- Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
